Saturday, 27 September 2008

My cousin held out the keys to his flashy looking sportscar and said “Do me a favour. If you crash into something with my car and it's nearly written off, but not quite. Please back up then hit it again, harder, until it really is written off”. I laughed nervously. “yeh, sure. Of course”. Needless to say I returned his car in perfect condition a few hours later.

The architect grinned as he reviewed my design proposal. “Don't worry about making the code beautiful, just make your changes work without causing extra test cyles. In fact, ugly changes are better. The sooner this code becomes legacy, the sooner we can rewrite it” I laughed nervously. “Sure, of course” He handed back my uml diagram and I went back to my computer to write some code. Beautiful code. Carefully.

Friday, 5 September 2008

For those of you who read Swedish, I have a new post up on jsolutions.se. The gist of it is that I usually read infoq to find out what is going on in the world, and I've just realized how biased it is compared with other Java news sources.

About Me

I'm a self employed consultant, with a focus on agile automated testing. I'm the author of "The Coding Dojo Handbook" (http://leanpub.com/codingdojohandbook). I'm married to Geoff Bache, creator of StoryText and TextTest. I tweet with username @emilybache.